Today I was reminded of one of the greatest parts of life, great friends.
In 2003 my wife and I move to Waterloo from our home town. We moved for school and it was just the two of us, we knew no one in the area. I started a new job the day after we moved here and I will tell you what, that "first day of school" feeling never seems to go away. I sat in a training class listening to the people talk about how they knew this person, or how they were referred by this friend. It just made my anxiety worse thinking that this was not where I was going to find any new friends, it sounded like these people were already well imbedded into their social settings.
To back this up a little bit you need to know that, in terms of friends, Tiff and I were not fond of this "starting over" feeling. We had the same friends, best friends, for a very long time. Now don't get me wrong, they are still some of the best friends we have! They have been there for us when others had let us down, they were the ones who watched stupid movies with us while sitting around eating frozen pizzas and Popsicles with, and the ones that were there with us when we were just fiends, to dating, to engaged, and then to married. We had been very blessed for the friends that we had, and starting over did not sound like fun.
Now we were in a new town, not a friend in sight, and feeling a little "out in the cold" I guess you could say. We did not stay that way for long though, we found our "gang" (I know, using the word gang makes me lose points fast but I did not know what else to say). So here is to them;
For the nights that we laughed so hard (usually over something not really all that funny) I did not know if I was going to stop
For the days spent on the river
For the nights that most of us can not even remember
For A LOT of 1/2 off Thursday nights
For showing us the errors in our way by buying furniture already put together ;)
For being there when you just needed someone to complain too
For trying to teach us a game for the past 7 years (and we still do not know how to play)
For being there for our kids
For being there for us
You have made our lives a better every single day. Thank you........ Gang........... :)
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